110.7 was the EU-27 employment index based on persons in Q1 2026, according to Eurostat’s latest quarterly industry employment update.
111.4 was the same index in Q4 2025, indicating a slight quarter-on-quarter decline in employment measured against the 2015 base of 100.
110.6 was the Q4 2025 index based on hours worked, showing Eurostat tracks both headcount and labor input across NACE Rev.2 industry sectors.
The release updates Eurostat’s NAMQ_10_A10_E dataset, a quarterly national-accounts series used to monitor employment trends across the 27-country bloc.
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